Google's UK operation has made more than $1 billion (£633.7 million) in quarterly revenues for the first time, as turnover leapt by a quarter despite wider economic jitters... more
Swiss private bank Julius Baer was drawn further into the US authorities' tax evasion net after two of its former employees were charged with helping some 180 rich Americans hide around $600 million (£380.5 million) in secret bank accounts... more
The City watchdog is contacting more than 49,000 people to warn them that their names were on a list being used by fraudsters trying to sell worthless shares... more
The decision of Fairfield Energy to cancel its initial public offering is bad news for the six banks, brokers and financial advisers that advised on the failed float... more
View from America: When Tea Party followers exclaim that they are not being listened to, they mean there's a black chap in the White House and they don't like it... more
Mike Lynch’s Autonomy announces its second big contract this week as it sells its Intelligent Data Operating Layer software to the United States taxman ... more
With a new series of Dragons’ Den returning to our screens in the summer, executive producer Sam Lewens has an "interesting" time with the BBC show's big hitters... more
Whitehall's spin doctors are crafty. Last Thursday, while the row was raging about British National Party leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time and the Royal Mail strike was causing chaos, the Government slipped out the news that — after 10 months of discussion — it was refusing to back a compulsory register of lobbyists ... more
American customers of European banks are rushing to declare offshore bank accounts to avoid criminal investigation by US authorities say tax lawyers... more
Switzerland accused the US government of conducting a heavy-handed "fishing expedition" in its demands for the names of 52,000 Americans using Swiss bank accounts... more
Banking: The Swiss government says it will stay away from a US Senate hearing on tax havens as the US taxman continues the campaign to force UBS to turn over account details of 52,000 American customers... more
Banking: Washington has signalled it will not ease back on demands for Swiss bank UBS to hand over the banking records of thousands of US citizens... more
Banking: Swiss bank UBS is to lift the veil on the country's famous banking secrecy and hand over names of account holders to the US taxman in a bid to avoid prosecution... more
The actor has been forced to pay £650,000 (£378,000) in back taxes and penalties after he was accused of wrongly writing off almost $3.4m (£1.9m) in personal expenses.... more
Phew! My email inbox has calmed down, the phone isn't ringing quite so frequently. The friends of the non-doms seem, finally, to have fallen silent... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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